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STATISTICS OF GARDENING. 



PART IV. 



nected with the vegetable world will be found in our Encyclopedia of Plants, and in the Encyclopaedia of 

 Agriculture. 



7739. The study of systematic and physiological botany must go hand in hand with prac- 

 tical acquirements ; for which, and also for forming an herbarium, he will find general 

 information in Part II. Book I., and for more minute details, he may consult the authors 

 there referred to. Some idea of vegetable chemistry and geology he will obtain from 

 Books I., II., and IV. of Part II. ; and also of the different insects and vermin which 

 are enemies to gardens and garden-productions. The study of landscape-gardening, as 

 being the highest part of the profession, should not be attempted till the apprentice has 

 made himself master of the three departments which precede it. 



7740. A knowledge of the weather and the seasons, so as, in some degree, to be able to 

 predict them from signs, is an important part of a gardener's acquirements. Our observ- 

 ations in Part II. Book II. will aid lu'm in this study, and he should also keep a weather- 

 book, or naturalist's journal, such as we have already suggested. (2349.) 



7741. A pocket memorandum-book, for taking notes of everything interesting, whether professional or 

 general, is a useful help to the young gardener. He should begin this sort of memorandum-book with his 

 leaving school ; and he will probably find it useful to continue it all his life after. Its size should be small 

 octavo, to suit the pocket ; it requires no ruling, but a line across the page half an inch from the top. In 

 writing on one page, the opposite one should always be left blank for corrections and additions, for sketches, 

 or for taking down temporary memorandums in pencil. The following may be considered as a specimen, 

 in which it is to be particularly observed, that a margin is left on the written page, on which margin each 

 article is begun with a word written or printed in large letters. These words, thus conspicuously placed, 

 serve as an index to each article, and in future reference will be found of material use, as they can be 

 glanced over like the words in a dictionary. Any thing to be inserted, should always be done instantly, or 

 never later than the same day. If it is done out of doors, it may be written on the blank page in pencil, 

 and afterwards copied on the opposite page in ink. 



Pocket Memorandum-Book ofj. Goti, Apprentice, at Aubrey Hall.- January tlth and 28M, 1821. 



27th. 



PEAS. Last night's frost and this day's sun have killed 

 the peas in the south border : but those sown in the 

 north side of the wattled hurdles escaped, being 

 shaded from the sun. 



LIZARD. Caught a new species, and took it to Twigg. 

 It had no tail, which convinced him it must be a 

 distinct species. 



28th. 



ROSES Idea of a conic iron tree, covered with any of 



the climbing roses, all over inoculated with monthly 

 roses. 



PARSNEP9. Gurkin O'Doolittle caught distilling par- 

 gnep whiskey in the tan-shed : discharged without a 

 character. His still two watering-pots placed top 

 to top, and closed with a wet cloth: the top kept 

 cool by pouring water on it. 



NEW IDEAS. TorrielJoss, the parson, called; says 

 there are two ways of getting new ideas ; by shuf- 

 fling what ideas we have together, like a pack of 

 cards, (which is to be done by a free glass of wine, 

 opium, or tobacco.) when new combinations may 

 occur to the mind accidentally : or by a studied 

 selection of ideas suitable to the subject on which it 

 is desired to invent, which can only be done by 

 scientific persons, as Sir H. Davy in his invention of 

 the safety-lamp. 



These were covered with drill hand-glasses, and the crop 

 is now, June 2d, fit to gather. 



N. B. It turned out to be only the common lizard 

 (Laceria vulgarit, Linn.) which had lost its tail by some 

 accident, and the wound had healed over. 



3ttm Cobbler's name White, lives t 

 Cat and Fiddle. 



7742. Apprentices are often required to keep a written journal of work done in the garden for their own 

 use, and this may be advisable in cases where no regular books are kept by the master ; but where such 

 books and tables are kept as we have recommended (2338. to 2350.), the apprentice performing his part in 

 making entries in, and daily seeing them, need keep no other books for his own improvement than a na- 

 turalist's kalendar (2349.) and the journal or memorandum-book just described. In the last he can enter 

 such facts belonging to gardening as are commonly entered in gardeners 1 journals. 



7743. Progress when a journeyman. An apprentice, besides studying his art in the 

 garden of his master, should, as often as may be, visit those of his neighbors, and observe 

 what is going on there. His apprenticeship completed, he should move to a different part 

 of the country, performing the journey leisurely on foot ; botanising and collecting insects 

 and minerals, and visiting every distinguished garden on his way. When he settles, it 

 should be in a different kind of garden to that in which he was before, and there he should 

 continue a year, and then remove and travel to another part of the country, and settle there 

 a year, and so on as already suggested (7380.), till he attains his twenty-fifth year, when 

 he may undertake the situation of master. During the whole period in which he is jour- 

 neyman, he should be steadily and unceasingly employed in improving himself, first in his 

 own art, and the branches of knowledge, as botany, natural history, chemistry, weather, 

 &c. on which it more immediately depends ; and next, if his ambition permits, on general 

 subjects of literature, arts, and sciences. 



SECT. III. Of the Intellectual Education which a Gardener may give himself, independently 

 of acquiring his Profession. 



7744. Self-education may be carried to a greater extent by a gardener than by almost 

 any other artisan No gardener, in our opinion, ought to be employed as a master 

 under the age of twenty-five years. Suppose him, therefore, to be put an apprentice at 



